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    Ken Safir (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Rutgers University)

    Safir’s monograph develops a theory about the role of anaphora in the formulation of general syntax: that the complementary distribution of forms that support anaphoric readings is not accidental; that…

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    The Syntax of Anaphora

    Ken Safir (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Rutgers University)

    Develops a theory about the role of anaphora in the formulation of general syntax. This monograph shows that the complementary distribution of forms that support anaphoric readings is not accidental…

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    The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn

    Floyd Grave (Music Department at Rutgers University),Margaret Grave

    This fresh, wide-ranging assessment of Haydn’s quartets explores the circumstances of their creation, reveals the conventions and novelties that govern their design, and examines the wealth of textures, stylistic allusions…

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    How Children Learn to Learn Language

    Lorraine McCune (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University)

    This book examines the often-neglected topic of how children discover the possibility of language and demonstrates that pre-language development involves a system of social, cognitive, and vocal variables that come…

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    Seeing Black and White

    Alan Gilchrist (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University)

    Reviews the history of the scientific development of lightness theory and outlines and critiques the theories of lightness, laying out the strengths and weaknesses of each. This work presents author’s…

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    Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women

    Louise Barnett (Professor of English, Professor of English, Rutgers University)

    Building upon research on the history of women, this book examines Jonathan Swift, both as man and writer, in terms of women. It considers women as mothers and nurses in…

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    Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law

    Douglas Husak (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University)

    Husak’s primary goal is to defend a set of constraints to limit the authority of states to enact and enforce criminal offenses. In addition, Husak situates this endeavor in criminal…

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    The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources

    Jonah Siegel (Professor of English, Professor of English, Rutgers University)

    In 1820 less than a handful of museums existed on the British Isles, and both their form and function were far from what a visitor today would expect, By the…

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    The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life

    Eviatar Zerubavel (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University)

    A leading sociological analyst of culture takes on the concept of denial, expounding the ways in which people, both as individuals and collectively, consciously refrain from acknowledging things of which…

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    Blood That Cries Out From the Earth: The Psychology of Religious Terrorism

    James Jones (Professor, Professor, Department of Religion, Rutgers University)

    As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion, James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to address the increasingly urgent issue of religious terrorism. Research on the psychology…

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    The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn

    Floyd Grave (Music Department at Rutgers University),Margaret Grave

    This fresh, wide-ranging assessment of Haydn’s quartets explores the circumstances of their creation, reveals the conventions and novelties that govern their design, and examines the wealth of textures, stylistic allusions…

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    Questions

    Veneeta Dayal (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Rutgers University)

    This book synthesizes and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions, and its interface with pragmatics and syntax. It will be a unique resource for the novice…

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    Veneeta Dayal (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Rutgers University)

    This book synthesizes and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions, and its interface with pragmatics and syntax. It will be a unique resource for the novice…

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    Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives

    Mark C. Baker (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Mark C. Baker investigates the fundamental nature of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. He claims that the various superficial differences that are found in particular languages have a single underlying source…

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    The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry

    Mary Lewis Shaw (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    A survey of French poetry.

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    Balfour: A Political Biography

    Sydney H. Zebel (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    This biography analyses the long political career of Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), the Conservative politician who became the first Earl of Balfour. Professor Zebel stresses the extraordinary nature of Balfour’s…

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    Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome

    Gary D. Farney (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Gary D. Farney explores how senators from Rome’s Republican period celebrated and manipulated their ethnic identity to get ahead in Rome’s political culture. He examines how they tried to advertise…

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    The Princes of Orange: The Stadholders in the Dutch Republic

    Herbert H. Rowen (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    An assessment of the Stadholderate of the Dutch Republic. The author looks at the career of each Prince of Orange in turn, from William I ( The Silent ), to…

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    Topics in Varieties of Group Representations

    Samuel M. Vovsi (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    This book is devoted to the theory of group representations, a young and promising area of modern algebra. It provides a detailed exposition of several central topics in the field…

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    Beaches and Dunes of Developed Coasts

    Karl F. Nordstrom (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    This volume discusses the role of humans in transforming the coastal landscape and details the many ways beaches and dunes are eliminated, altered and replaced. It is aimed at practising…

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    Elements of Numerical Methods for Compressible Flows

    Doyle D. Knight (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    The purpose of this book is to present numerical methods for compressible flows. It is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and specialists working in high speed flows. The…

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    The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824

    Robert M. Ryan (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    This is the first book to examine the literature of the Romantic period as a conscious attempt to effect the religious transformation of society. Robert Ryan explores the Romantics’ participation…

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    Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures

    Matt K. Matsuda (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This groundbreaking history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have…

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    The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry

    Mary Lewis Shaw (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    A survey of French poetry.

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    The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past

    Mary S. Hartman (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Unlike most historical accounts of modern Western societies, which identify the change that truly matters as occurring in institutions beyond households, this one contends that the major changes identified with…

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    Markedness: Reduction and Preservation in Phonology

    Paul de Lacy (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    This book presents a groundbreaking theory of markedness in phonology, the tendency of languages to show a preference for particular structures or sounds. Drawing on examples from a wide range…

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    Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome

    Gary D. Farney (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Gary D. Farney explores how senators from Rome’s Republican period celebrated and manipulated their ethnic identity to get ahead in Rome’s political culture. He examines how they tried to advertise…

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    Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework

    John Oberdiek (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Rutgers University)

    When we impose risk upon others, what is it that we are doing? What is risking’s moral significance? What moral standards govern the imposition of risk? And how should the…

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    Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture

    Meredith A. Bak (Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University)

    The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as new media of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.

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    Charlie Parker, Composer

    Henry Martin (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Rutgers University)

    Charlie Parker, Composer reexamines the renowned jazz improviser as a composer in his own right, assessing 84 of his original works with a focus on their aesthetic qualities and historical…

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    The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia

    Alexander Hinton (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University)

    For survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge Regime, western instruments of justice are small plasters on deep wounds. In Hinton’s account of the subsequent international tribunal, only traditional ceremony, ritual…

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    The Metaphysics Within Physics

    Tim Maudlin (Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    What does physics tell us about metaphysics? Tim Maudlin’s philosophical examination of the fundamental structure of the world as presented by physics challenges the most widely accepted philosophical accounts of…

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    Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity

    Melissa Aronczyk (Assistant Profesor, Assistant Profesor, Rutgers University)

    What happens to the nation when it is reconceived as a brand? How does nation branding change the terms of politics and culture in a globalized world? Branding the Nation…

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    Drugs and Rights

    Douglas N. Husak (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Do adults have the right to use drugs for recreational purposes? This first serious work to address the question argues that the ‘war on drugs’ violates the rights of adults…

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    The Gold Standard and Related Regimes: Collected Essays

    Michael D. Bordo (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Contains a collection of Bordo’s classic pieces on the gold standard and related regimes. Although the gold standard and its variants are now history, it still has great appeal for…

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    Incentive Relativity

    Charles F. Flaherty (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Incentive relativity is the study of the disappointment and irritation that occurs in life, and this book provides an account of the subject. The book shows that animals also respond…

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    The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text

    Jocelyn Penny Small (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text considers the relationship between artists and texts throughout classical antiquity. Systematically applying new and objective criteria judging the fidelity between picture and…

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    The Geometry of Evolution: Adaptive Landscapes and Theoretical Morphospaces

    George R. McGhee (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    The adaptive landscape concept allows the user to view an organism’s evolutionary trajectory through time, as a journey through the landscape driven by natural selection, and genetic morphological and developmental…

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    Cognition

    Arnold Lewis Glass (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Drawing on a modern neurocognitive framework, this full-color textbook introduces the entire field of cognition through an engaging and consistent narrative. In addition to numerous learning features and visual aids…

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    The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law

    Thomas M. Izbicki (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    Thomas Izbicki presents a new analysis of the medieval Church’s teaching about and the regulation of the practice of the Eucharist. Examining the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament…

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    Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale

    Ryan Bunch (PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University)

    From the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum’s…

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    Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale

    Ryan Bunch (PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University)

    From the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum’s…

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    The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans

    Jonathan Scott Holloway (President, President, Rutgers University)

    What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.What does it mean to be an…

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    The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence

    Susanna Schellenberg (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University)

    This book develops a unified account of perceptual content, perceptual consciousness, and perceptual evidence. Each is analyzed in terms of the key idea that perception is constituted by employing perceptual…

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    Saladin’s Sword: A Papal Treasure

    Professor James Jones (Department of Religion Rutgers University)

    Flying a Dutch flag, the Vandetta is parked alongside the dock in the port of Kingston, Jamaica. On board, meeting secretly, are four pirate captains-three former royal navy captains and…

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    Saladin’s Sword: A Papal Treasure Part 2 - The Secret of the Scrimshaw - The Captain’s Log Book

    Professor James Jones (Department of Religion Rutgers University)

    Flying a Dutch flag, the Vandetta is moored alongside the dock in the port of Kingston, Jamaica. On board, meeting secretly, are four pirate captains-three former royal navy captains and…

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    The Gold Standard and Related Regimes: Collected Essays

    Michael D. Bordo (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    This 1999 book contains a collection of Michael D. Bordo’s classic pieces on the gold standard and related regimes based directly or indirectly on gold convertibility. Although the gold standard…

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    Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England

    Diane Kelsey McColley (Rutgers University, New Jersey)

    This study explores the relationship between the language of seventeenth-century British poets and the music of composers who were their contemporaries. McColley combines close readings of particular poems and musical…

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